Mumbai, India (SPX) Jul 04, 2023 -
In 1929, astronomers discovered that galaxies are streaming away from us and each other. They interpreted this observation that the universe is expanding. However, when they measured how fast it is
Still, say they were… and say we could hop aboard the
Enterprise and make the entirely questionable decision to warp on over to a binary supermassive black hole system. What would it look like?
Video of The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
Simulation of two supermassive black holes orbiting each other. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. Powell
This is not just CGI, it s a simulation based on solving the actual equations of the Theory Relativity, the laws that tell light how to behave in the presence of the immense gravity of black holes. Solving them for a single black hole is difficult though it s been done before but doing for two is far harder. Still, this is what it would look like if you were there.